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TIL Progressive once hired a lawyer to defend a driver who killed their customer in an attempt to avoid paying out liability coverage.

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NXnaN TIL we are technically still in an ice age.
AN0V7 TIL that multiple sclerosis is more common in people who live farther from the equator and the cause of this geographical pattern is not clear.
aM5b TIL One of the worst nuclear disasters involved 112,000 Brazilians being inspected after a piece of radiotherapy equipment was stolen. One man wanted to make his wife a ring from the glowing blue powder. She died.
7e5r TIL the Olympic flame in 1976 traveled by radio waves to a laser that lit the cauldron.
ka7E TIL that despite the first Dalai Lama being born 622 years ago, only 14 people have ever held the title.